Combined transom and door curtain.



E. J. CROFT.

COMBINED TRANSOM AND DOOR CURTAIN.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2. 1914.

1,140,665. Patented May 25, 1915.

EDMUND J. CROFT, 0F TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

COMBINED TRANSOM AND DOOR CURTAIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1915.

Application filed July 2, 1914. Serial No. 848,621.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND J. CROFT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Transom and Door Curtains, of which the following is a specification.

It is the custom in hotels to keep the lights in the main halls burning during the night, and in some States this is required by law. This light has been found to be very objectionable to the guests of hotels, especially where the doors have glass panels and where there are transoms over the doors which the guests desire to keep open, and many expeclients have been resorted to, to overcome the objection of the hall lights reflecting in the rooms.

The. object of my invention is to provide a combined transom and door curtain which will exclude all light from the room by. covering the glass panels in both the door and the transom and at the same time provide such construction that the. transom may be opened while the curtain is covering the glass panel in it and in the door without affecting the function of the curtain.

A further object of my invention is to provide means whereby all liability of the curtain being caught between the top of the door and the door jamb is obviated.

A still further object of my invention is to permit persons from the outside observing the shadow of persons in the room; and

' with these and other objects'in view my 1nvention consists of the parts and combination of parts as will be hereinafter set forth. In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a door and transom with my invention applied, the curtain being in a lowered position. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the shade-rolled above the top of the door, and covering only the transom. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a part of a door showing the roller mounted in a recess therein. Fig. 1 is a detail view of the end of one of the rollers and its spring brass bracket.

The reference numeral 1 designated a door frame of suitable construction in which the door 2 is hung on any approved type of hinge. The transom 3 is hinged at the bottom, as shown in the drawing, and is provided with a glass panel, the door also being provided with a glass panel. Curtain brackets 4 are secured to the top stile of the transom 3 in which is mounted a curtain roller to which is secured the curtain 5, said curtain having a depending cord 6 on the lower end of which is secured a suitable weight 7.

8 is an idler roller mounted in spring brass brackets 9 on the lower stile of the transom, said brackets spacing the roller a suitable distance from the face-of the transom to permit the curtain to easily pass between it and the transom; said roller serving to hold the curtain against the face of the transom at all times irrespective of the transom being in its closed position or in an open position. This idler roller 8 also serves to hold the curtain against the face of the door when the transom is swung to open position; the idler acting as the point of suspension, close to the perpendicular plane of the face of the door when the transom is in its inclined open position.

10 is a recess formed in the top of the door in which is journaled an idler roller 11, said roller being in position to act as a bearing for the weighted cord when the curtain is wound up beyond the top of the door, so that when the door is opened the weighted cord bears on the roller, thus maintaining the cord taut and when the door is being closed the weight takes up all slack in the cord and curtain so that there is no danger ofthe cord Or curtain becoming caught between the top of the door and the door jamb. By locating the roller 11 in a recess in the top of the door I am enabled to have it flush with the face of the door so that the curtain may hang snug against the face of the door when it is pulled down to cover the glass in the door.

My invention may be'applied, with equal efliciency to all styles of transoms.

The journals 12 for the idler rollers are conical and the journal bearings in the spring brackets 9 are of less diameter than the greater diameter of the journals, so that the ends of the roller are prevented from coming in contact with the spring brackets, thus obviating binding.

What I claim is In a combined transom and door curtain, the combination with a curtain hung on a hinged transom, an idler roller secured to the bottom of the transom against which the I curtain bears, a weighted operating cord suspended from the curtain, and an idler roller secured to the door over which the weighted cord or ourtain moves when the door is In testimony whereof I aifix my signature opened to prevent the cord or curtain bein presence of two Witnesses. coming caught between the door and its EDMUND J. CROFT.

frame when the door is opened and closed, Witnesses: said Weighted cord serving to hold the cur- L. A. BYRD, tain taut. V Jnssn B. GUARDING.

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Washington, D. C. 

